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  • But if you just can't wait those eight long months, or strangely have something against turquoise seas, baby blue skies and sumptuous sunshine, then get yourself down to Dalston for a much more urban preview of the weekend's shore-side events.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • The sound of waves becomes louder as the coastal way turns west beyond Picklecombe, where the shore-side fort is converted into dwellings.

    Country diary: Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall 2011

  • In the 1920s and '30s, the Waikiki beach boys—a gang of handsome wave-riders that included surfing's founding father Duke "The Big Kahuna" Kahanamoku—were throwing wild shore-side parties with visiting Hollywood stars like Bing Crosby.

    Endless Summer 2012

  • In her youth, she'd easily made the trip back and forth from the Guardian's cave to the shore-side villages a couple of times a day.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • Glebes ducked and darted as they pleased in algae beds or hid amongst the shore-side reeds.

    Centennial Lakes Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • Glebes ducked and darted as they pleased in algae beds or hid amongst the shore-side reeds.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • Over the past year high oil prices had cut into the cruise company's profits, leading the company to say in July that it would lay off 400 shore-side employees.

    Royal Caribbean's Profit Edges Up, but Bookings Are Weakening 2008

  • If the ice-pressure leading to grounding comes from the accretion zone at the sea-side, then continued grounding of the ice must mean that ice lost to sublimation and ablation on the shore-side is replaced by ice from seaward.

    Ellesmere Island Ice Shelves « Climate Audit 2007

  • There are basically two kinds of surcharges: one is called "bunker" that refers to fuel used aboard ship, and "inland" fuel that's used by truck and rail on shore-side and inland operations.

    Container Costs In Flux 2006

  • The ships ride here so close, and, as it were, keeping up one another, with their headfasts on shore, that for half a mile together they go across the stream with their bowsprits over the land, their bows, or heads touching the very wharf; so that one may walk from ship to ship as on a floating bridge, all along by the shore-side.

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

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